8th Estonia´s Friends International Meeting Program

July 5th, 2019

Welcoming words by President of the Republic of Estonia, Mrs. Kersti Kaljulaid

Opening of the session by the Patron of the EFIM, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Keynote presentation by Ott Kaukver, CTO of Twilio, the communications platform that powers most of the apps on your phone’s home screen. Ott has scaled Twilio from the first few dozen engineers to the thousand+ in current global footprint of 23 offices, from San Francisco to Tallinn. The company’s successful IPO and current $17B valuation make Ott effectively the highest ranking tech executive in the world with an Estonian passport. Not to even mention that his previous gig was as the VP Engineering of Skype, scaling from startup days to 300M active users and the eventual $8.5B exit to Microsoft.